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Welsh Government: Record levels of funding for flood defences
Minister Julie James yesterday said that the Welsh Government was ‘keeping communities safe from the growing risk of climate change’ as she confirmed record levels of funding for flood risk management. Speaking in the Senedd, the Climate Change Minister confirmed a £75m investment as she published t
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New phase of Kingstown Port Modernisation Project kicks off
Another phase of the Kingstown Port Modernisation Project is set to begin today, the Agency For Public Information – St. Vincent and the Grenadines said. According to Assistant Project Manager in the Project Implementation Unit, Lenski Douglas, the all clear has been given for AECON to begin offshor
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Healey-Driscoll: Grants to support dredge equipment purchases
The Healey-Driscoll Administration last week announced more than $1 million in grants to Barnstable County and the Town of Edgartown through the Massachusetts Dredging Program’s Regional Equipment Grant Round, the first grant round to offer focused funding to coastal municipalities for the purchase
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Royal IHC on sustainable dredging: Classic design approach is no longer sufficient
The energy transition brings many uncertainties in the development of sustainable dredging vessels and equipment. At the CEDA/KNVTS meeting in Rotterdam last week, Bernardete Castro, Director Sustainability at Royal IHC, showed how Royal IHC is helping its customers to better manage this uncertainty
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The largest winter dredging at Gloucester Dock ends
Land & Water is in the process of completing the largest winter dredge of Gloucester Dock. The firm, which carries out work at the dock and on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal each year as part of an ongoing framework with the Canal & River Trust, will be carrying out backhoe dredging to remove appr
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WEDA webinar on management strategies
Western Dredging Association (WEDA) will next Friday, April 28, 2023, at 1:30 PM EST host their next webinar titled “4 Project Management Strategies That Will Impact Your Projects Today”. This webinar aims to provide project management strategies one can use today to improve the current and future p
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Jan De Nul’s giant TSHD pumps sand onto Knokke beach
Over the past five weeks, Jan De Nul dredged as much as 500,000 m³ of sand to elevate the beach of Knokke-Heist on behalf of Agentschap Maritieme Dienstverlening en Kust (MDK). JDN’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Pedro Álvares Cabral – sailing on 100% second-generation biofuel – carried out
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Gulfport, USACE ink dredging study agreement
Yesterday was a big first step in a long journey to make the Port of Gulfport more efficient and economically viable. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed an agreement with the Port of Gulfport to begin a years-long environmental and economic impact study into dredging the shipping channel into t
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Without dredging, Groton would lose ability to launch and build submarines
Attorney General William Tong yesterday applauded a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to hear an appeal in Rosado v. Pruitt, finally ending years of litigation over the lawful selection of the Eastern Long Island Sound Disposal Site for dredged materials. Connecticut intervened in the case
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Cape Town: Spatial planning budget prioritises dredging
Ald Eddie Andrews, Cape Town’s Deputy Mayor & MMC, Spatial Planning and Environment, has just released a statement on spatial planning budget, prioritising health of vleis, coastline, resilience to climate change. In November last year, at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Partie
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Province of British Columbia supports Steveston dredging
The Province of British Columbia is helping improve access to Steveston Harbour by supporting dredging that will maintain the Cannery Channel approach to the harbour, the largest commercial fishing harbour in Canada. “Reliable harbour access is vital for fishers and Steveston’s rich community of mar
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Town of Duck beach nourishment in full swing
Town of Duck has just released the latest update on their beach nourishment project. According to the announcement, Weeks Marine has continued to move north from the Dianne Street subline since beach nourishment construction began last week, with the active construction zone between Port Trinitie an
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EXCLUSIVE: Dredging of Suez Canal southern sector nears end
Around 88 percent of dredging work to expand and deepen the southern sector of the Suez Canal has been completed, said Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie. The Chairman revealed this information yesterday, after his inspection tour. According to Rabie, the dredging operations are
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Gulhi land reclamation kicks off
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has just released the latest update on the Gulhi Land Reclamation and Shore Protection Project. According to MTCC, the physical works for this very important development program are already started. Also, the seabed preparation is currently ongoing.